When I hear music that parents hate, or older musicians hate, I know that's the new music. When I hear older people… — George Clinton Copy Share Image
Then certainly for a musician timing becomes something that is immediately accessible as a concept, because it's a necessity in ones everyday… — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
The vibrations on the air are the breath of God speaking to man's soul. Music is the language of God. We musicians… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I love when people are coming up and they're working hard and you can see that they're really focused on the process… — Amos Lee Copy Share Image
My love of R&B and hip-hop has influenced my life not even as a musician, but generally in terms of growing up… — James Vincent McMorrow Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I wanted desperately to be a jazz musician. I would practice the trumpet for hours, but when… — Zach Woods Copy Share Image
I want to do musician things and start making this my life. I want to learn - there's so much I have… — James Wolpert Copy Share Image
I always try to teach by example and not force my ideas on a young musician. One of the reasons we're here… — Dizzy Gillespie Copy Share Image
The cliché of that sort of wasted, renegade, drugged-out musician of the '70s is kind of dead and gone now. And I… — Chrissie Hynde Copy Share Image
Occasionally I hear a band that blows me away. For instance, there's a musician in Oakland named Weasel Walter who has a… — Glenn Branca Copy Share Image
I feel the theatre is the most unique one of all [the arts] for collaboration. I feel very fortunate to be in… — Susan Stroman Copy Share Image
When I lived in New York, there wasn't as much TV or film around. I got asked to do a couple of… — James Iha Copy Share Image
From the small clubs of the Harlem Renaissance where he began playing saxophone to world tours for the biggest of the big… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
I didn't come to Nashville to put on a cowboy hat and pretend to be a country singer. My attraction to Nashville… — John Oates Copy Share Image
If they think they are doing something new, they ought to do what I do every day - spend at least two… — Coleman Hawkins Copy Share Image
I grew up in a home filled with music and had an early appreciation of jazz since my dad was a jazz… — Molly Ringwald Copy Share Image
If a musician wants to be an actor, everyone thinks that's pretty cool. But if an actor wants to play a song,… — John Hawkes Copy Share Image
If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it,… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
More people than ever are spending money to support more artists and musicians and give them more leisure time to build cereal… — Brian Chippendale Copy Share Image
I gave up trying to please others and started playing for myself, and because I love music, things naturally happened then. Funny… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
I think the best thing an artist can do is not hang out with other artists. I really dislike hanging out with… — Justin Townes Earle Copy Share Image
It is the individual voice, present to itself, that needs to be heard. We need to hear the process of the musician… — Keith Jarrett Copy Share Image
I heard these stories [about musicians from my mother] and somehow music, it was my understanding what my father had done. I… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
In the end it is the musician who actually plays the notes. The impresario - or the project leader - is only… — John Kao Copy Share Image
I have seen so many bands and musicians fade away, especially the ones in my early days that treated me and my… — Bernie Marsden Copy Share Image
I went to university (Brown), I worked as a designer, I competed in Olympic sport (rowing) ... and I ended up being… — Dhani Harrison Copy Share Image
Scientists contribute in a variety of ways and I don't think I can singular one even including [Albert] Einstein, that I can… — Ahmed H. Zewail Copy Share Image
Since my father is a musician as well, he taught me growing up that if you can play jazz, you can learn… — Meghan Trainor Copy Share Image
I'm in awe of people like Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard; they're great musicians and people. But I'm most starstruck by… — Kid Rock Copy Share Image
I think that artists and musicians can do as much harm as good for causes if they tie their names to lots… — Damian Kulash Copy Share Image
In actuality it's drum samples in the computer. I don't know, I've just never really dug into that whole technology thing, I… — The Rocket Summer Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to stay away from being a celebrity, I'm not saying, 'I'm sooo not famous,' I'm trying to continue being… — Amy Winehouse Copy Share Image
The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark When neither is attended; and I think The nightingale, if she should sing… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
A lot of cats in New Orleans, very soulful, very soulful musicians and they assume that they're singers. And they just make… — Wendell Pierce Copy Share Image
I never had this definite moment or epiphany where I made the choice to pursue a career in music. That desire was… — Carly Rae Jepsen Copy Share Image
I have learned a lot from jazz. I compare good acting to jazz music. The more you study and prepare as an… — Nat Wolff Copy Share Image
Even though I was performing all the time as an actress and I was doing all of these plays as a kid,… — Lola Kirke Copy Share Image
The great leaders of business, industry and finance, and the great artists, poets, musicians and writers all became great because they developed… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
I do a lot of touring, yes, and I have my whole life ever since I was 19 years old, when I… — Vonda Shepard Copy Share Image
I really feel that artists or musicians are controversial people. Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity. If people… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
![“I feel the theatre is the most unique one of all [the arts] for collaboration. I feel very fortunate to be in a field where I really do get to have long conversations with the visual artists, the actors, the musicians. It's all art forms rolled into one and I feel very fortunate to be a part of it.” quote by Susan Stroman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/456/susan-stroman-28704_actors_i-feel-the-theatre-is-the-most-unique-on_2960285.jpg)
![“I heard these stories [about musicians from my mother] and somehow music, it was my understanding what my father had done. I didn't know it was misinformation. It sort of inwardly in my psyche laid the template for music being affiliated with my father and my family.” quote by Jon Gordon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/84c/jon-gordon-1655_done_i-heard-these-stories-about-musicians-fr_2640766.jpg)
![“Scientists contribute in a variety of ways and I don't think I can singular one even including [Albert] Einstein, that I can say that he's the best. We don't work like the best basketball player and the best musician and so on. Science is a collective effort.” quote by Ahmed H. Zewail](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/19d/ahmed-h-zewail-20096_albert-einstein_scientists-contribute-in-a-variety-of-wa_2008536.png)
![“Even though I was performing all the time as an actress and I was doing all of these plays as a kid, there's a vulnerability about being a musician that you don't get [when] you perform somebody else's work.” quote by Lola Kirke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d55/lola-kirke-19867_actresses_even-though-i-was-performing-all-the-tim_2852504.jpg)
